State, Class, and Bureaucracy: Canadian Unemployment Insurance and Public Policy

by Leslie A. Pal

In reviewing the history of Canadian UI, Pal shows that while capital and labour had substantial disagreements over policy, their representations to state officials rarely had any decisive impact on policy development. The author suggests that bureaucratic forces, including organizational ideology and inter-agency conflict, provide a much richer basis for understanding UI policy evolution. The actuarial ideology of the Commission explains the conservative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773506233
• ISBN13: 9780773506237
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 224 Pages